Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Cogitations This photographer is Nobody. More precisely, this photographer in decline is all of us. At the end of the fighting, he will remain an Unknown Photographer and, why not, celebrated as such. In a way, a symbol of all of us, disappearing without posterity, gone because of the assumed laziness of the new editors. The mentions of the credit have become rather epitaphs, limited to the…
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Hannah Traore Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj's first solo exhibition, People of My Time, until March 29, 2025. People of My Time presents portraits fusing Moroccan heritage and pop sensibility. The exhibition, a collection of small-scale photographic portraits taken between 2000 and 2022, depicts figures who crossed Hajjaj's path across the world. In vibrant colors, accompanied by frames made from repurposed plastic floor mats, the exhibition is a testament to global…
Broadcast of the film I am Martin Parr by Lee Shulman on February 15 at 11 p.m. on France 5, now available in replay on France.tv. And release by Textuel editions of Déjà View by Martin Parr & The Anonymous Project. An unusual and playful visual conversation between two extremely rich photographic bodies, Déjà View combines in tasty pairs the photos of the fanciful and cult Martin Parr with the…
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Jean Paul Olive presents in this book a new photographic odyssey, the adventure of an indefatigable traveler, at odds with everything digital. The b & w reality, with strong images of Greece sitting on its past questions the present. The game of hopscotch from land to sea, characters to landscapes, struggle between shadow and light, echoes the words of Blaise Cendrars, throwing his shoes overboard, to go to the end…
Incarnatio editions, which publish Normal magazine, are releasing Thomas Freyer's book, It's Magdalena. Born in 1968 in East Germany, Thomas Freyer is an engineer and pharmacist by profession, and a photographer by passion. Already very young, he photographed still lifes and worked in his own darkroom. At the beginning of 2000, a friend introduced him to portrait photography. He then discovered a passion and took the opportunity to photograph the…
The Drake documents the lives of people existing just above survival on one square block in Nashville, Tennessee. The area is centred on a classic 1940’s motel, The Drake, which has featured in numerous movies over the years and where scores of stars including Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton even stayed in its long-gone heyday. Tamara Reynolds “weave[s] into [her] compelling images a sense of urgency… I am in awe…
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M+B in Los Angeles let us know of the passing of Hugh Holland. They write: It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of our dear friend and legendary photographer, Hugh Holland, who left us peacefully at the age of 82. Hugh’s iconic photographs of the Southern California skate scene in the 1970s remain some of the most celebrated images of the era. Hugh’s journey as a photographer…
Until March 29, Ikastikos Kiklos DL Gallery in Athens presents ‘Disturbed Soil’ by Rea Papadopoulou. She writes. My family moved to Greece during my early childhood. While we were living in a densely populated urban area of Athens, in my dreaming eyes the countryside was a marvel of beauty where I could have the freedom for explorations. Greece is a small country that retains huge diversity of landscapes, habitats, and…
Norwegian photographer Mette Tronvoll opens her exhibition Time at the Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, from January 30th to May 25th, 2025. While presenting famous portraits of the 1990s, taken from Double Portrait and AGE Women’s series, Mette Tronvoll also unveils her long exploration of the Norwegian southern coast, playing with the silent and yet constantly evolving beauty of islands and inlands. The exhibition begins with a series of portraits taken…
Stephen Perloff’s new series Old Masters Revisited will be till March 31 at the Space Art Gallery of Philadelphia. Perloff, the founder and editor of The Photo Review and editor of The Photograph Collector, taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and universities, and is the recipient of two artist fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism and the Colin Ford Award…
Until March 28th, Keith de Lellis Gallery presents the exhibition Red, Black, and Blue: 20th Century African American Portrait Photography with images by photographers such as Carl Van Vechten, Anthony Barboza, Wallace Seawell, Charlotte Brooks, Bob Willoughby, Gjon Mili, Beuford Smith, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Weegee… Red, Black, and Blue: 20th Century African American Portrait Photography February 6th - March 28th, 2025 Keith de Lellis Gallery 41 E 57th St #703…
Sortie aux éditions GÒKÈ de Unyọñ Ufọk d’Emily Nkanga. The project began in January 2021 when Nkanga returned home for her father’s burial. After living in the UK for more than seven years, she was struck by the love her father—a beloved patriarch who “changed the generational story” of their family—received from the community. This inspired her to document life in Akwa Ibom. Over nearly two years, Nkanga photographed local…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. This is a selection of their portfolio : Musical Chairs The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published by The Agents Club. www.theagentsclub.com
I wrote a huge stupidity a few weeks ago: artificial intelligence will be the deadly virus of Photography and that we, The Eye of Photography, would never talk about it. AI is indeed the deadly virus of photography but we must talk about it, especially as it represents a new approach and a drastic change in our world. If AI allows immeasurable progress in various fields, in photography on the…
Ahead of the international summit organized on the subject in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture supervised two days of meetings at the BNF and the Conciergerie on the weekend of February 8 and 9. On the program: round tables, workshops and exhibitions to better understand what artificial intelligence is and how it will change our lives. An “opportunity”. Here is the key word spoken by the…
Throughout last weekend, a large exhibition on artificial intelligence was held at the Conciergerie in Paris. A range of artists invited to reflect on the subject, producing works at the crossroads of worlds and deeply questioning our relationship with the virtual. “Don’t be afraid of change! » exclaims a voice with robot accents. Just before, teenagers transformed themselves into flower-men, their skin covered with green stems and colorful corollas. Video…
In this round table organized at the BNF, the speakers discussed the major challenges represented by the arrival of artificial intelligence in the cultural field. A revolution whose scale is difficult to perceive, but which already raises many questions and promises to change the world of creation. “I consider that AI is a kind of muse that broadens my inspiration,” confides songwriter Jean-Michel Jarre. Invited to this round table, he…
How is artificial intelligence investing in the field of heritage? Specialists came to discuss about it at the BNF and talk about how AI intervenes in many professions. With her company Iconem, Andréa Louis, software engineer and technical project manager, creates digital duplicates of archaeological sites in danger of extinction. This was the case in Syria and Iraq where jihadists endangered world heritage emblems in the 2010s. Thanks to 3D…
With the advent of new technology in the field of journalism, the question of truth and falsehood has perhaps never been so present. State of media and information in the age of AI. “There is a force of falsehood. We don't like to be contradicted. » warns the famous physicist Étienne Klein, producer of the show “La conversation scientifique” on France Culture. He adds: “There is good and bad critical…
The deployment of artificial intelligence in museum institutions is imminent, if not already effective. Feedback and conversation around this new technology in museum environment. “In India, there are 1,200 museums, but above all there are more than 900 million Internet users,” says Dr Shah Feasal, deputy secretary of the Indian Ministry of Culture. “With conversational AI, we are trying to enrich the visitor’s journey by offering guided tours in all…
With this series of ten episodes of approximately three minutes, Arte has given carte blanche to a visual artist to work directly with AI. Result ? A stroll through the twists and turns of images produced by Midjourney with a dose of humor and philosophy. The artist Jocelyn Collages says he felt “dizzy” the day he realized the power of AI to create images. This is how he contacted his…